Beacon Litfest and
Beacon Litworks Presenters

  • FRANCINE PROSE

    FICTION

  • DINAW MENGESTU

    FICTION

  • KRISTOPHER JANSMA

    FICTION

  • STACEY D'ERASMO

    NONFICTION

  • CO MOED

    NONFICTION

  • GREGORY PARDLO

    POETRY

  • RUTH DANON

    POETRY

  • JOHN YAU

    POETRY

  • VIEVE RADHA PRICE & CHUCK OBASI

    DRAMA

  • JULIA DAHL

    FICTION-NOIR

  • MARGOT DOUAIHY

    FICTION-NOIR

  • JODE MILLMAN

    FICTION-NOIR

  • DREW PROCHASKA

    STORYTELLER/MODERATOR

  • JACKIE CORLEY

    MODERATOR-NOIR

  • CYNTHIA WEINER

    MODERATOR-NOIR

  • BRIAN MAHONEY

    MODERATOR-FICTION

  • CAROLINE EISNER

    MODERATOR-NONFICTION

  • ANDREA TALARICO

    MODERATOR-POETRY

  • SHANE KILLORAN

    MODERATOR-DRAMA

Past Presenters

  • Jennifer Egan

  • Lucy Sante

  • Amitava Kumar

  • Abigail Thomas

  • Danielle Trussoni

  • Timothy Liu

  • Edwin Torres

  • Tina Cane

  • Evie Shockley

  • Tiffany Troy

  • Jordan Kisner

  • Will Shortz

  • Indran Amirthanayagam

  • Emily Mortimer

  • Laura Sims

  • David Herskovits

  • Martine Bellen

  • Nigel Gearing

  • Maria Dahvana Headley

  • Ken Foster

  • Panio Gianopoulos

  • Elizabeth 'Betsy' Crane

  • Bettina 'Poet Gold' Wilkerson

  • Steven Massimilla

  • Crystal Hana Kim

  • Richard Eagan

  • Jason Koo

  • Silvina Lopez Medin

  • Jamie Price

  • Charlotte Meehan

  • Ginger Strand

  • Patricia Spears Jones

  • Molly Ringwald

  • Mitchell Jackson

  • Julie Metz

  • Joe Donohue

  • Julie Chibbaro

  • Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

  • Marissa Levien

  • Erica Hunt

  • Said Sayrafiezadeh

  • Donna Minkowitz

  • Celia Barbour

  • Catherine Barnett

  • Gretchen Primack

  • Sean Singer

  • Amy Holman

  • David Surface

  • Janlori Goldman

  • Natalia Rosenfeld

  • Kristen Holt-Browning

  • Mike Jurkovic

  • Drew Morrison

  • Local Writers

  • Core Improv

  • Local Writers

    NLF 2019

  • Vivian Gage

    Student Award 2021

  • Steven Baltsas

    Student Award 2019